calorosome wrote:A man was depressed over losing his wife to another man and decided to end it all by laying across the O&W tracks and waited for the train... and waited... and waited... then he died of starvation.

calorosome wrote:A man was depressed over losing his wife to another man and decided to end it all by laying across the O&W tracks and waited for the train... and waited... and waited... then he died of starvation.

OK not an Erie joke but a goodie nonetheless.

I call you Killer, 'cause you slay me!

A desparate guy tried to swallow a ruler and he couldn't kill himself by the inch so he went to Gang Mills and died by the yard...

Maybe not the exact words, but another of the Official Erie Jokes:A man comes rushing up to the window at the Consolidated Ticket Agency and breathlessly exclaims, "I've got to get to Buffalo in the worst way". So, the agent sells him a ticket on the Erie!

I recall reading in Theodore Scull's book on the Hoboken Terminal that someone on the Erie came up with a lampoon of the Phoebe Snow rhymes touting that road's freedom from cinders, which got around somehow, possibly in an Erie publication:

Said Phoebe Snow in the dining car,"I did not order caviar."The waiter dusted off the bread."That is not caviar," he said.